DD-wrt + squid +3am productivity binge = awesome
A few weeks ago I was having lots of trouble with my Linksys WRT54G rev5 router, so I decided to give DD-WRT a shot. It definitely works like a charm, and I have been tweaking with the settings (such as upping the power on the wireless to see if it makes a difference). I then decided it would be cool to set up a squid caching proxy on my box to speed up the general browsing. I mean ever since people ruined the internet with non-porn pictures, websites get slower and slower. And if you think about it, most of your day to day browsing is probably on the same sites anyway, which use the same images over and over (news sites, myspace, google, whatever). After screwing around with it for about 2 hoy got it to work by recompiling with "enable-ipf-transparent" and "enable-pf-transparent". Not sure if I needed both of them, but it works now. Then just had to set the router to proxy web traffic through the box and voila.
I definitely think this would be neat and useful for a bigger organization like CSH, maybe I'll talk to some RTP's about getting it configured as part of an opt-in service for testing.